Were you naughty or nice? What did Santa bring you! Audio related only please!


I guess my wife and daughter paid more attention than I thought to the many emails I sent them saying " this would be cool" etc.

Full Ultrasonic cleaning system cw rotisserie style record rack holding 5 albums at a time to clean. Looks to be well built and already cleaned 20 so time to play them and see what changes.

Hifiman HE-4XX headphones from Drop ( one of their Drop only specials). Sounds way better than my old Meze Audio cans from a quick listen this morning.

What did YOU get?
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An Orren Ellis geometric lighted doorbell (the doorbell not the push-button). Damn thing won't light up even after installing a required resistor.

Oh, Audio related? a sweet Polk 12 inch subwoofer to fill out the bottom on my home-theater system. $330 delivered. Saved at least $1000 not buying the high-priced spread. 
A book from my wife.
For some reason she doesn't buy me audio stuff.

A week ago though I did order myself a Schumann Resonator Chartres MkV with two power supplies.


Just arrived in time for the holidays: Art Pepper - Thursday Night At The Village Vanguard/Contemporary LP ; Bruckner Symphony 9/Barenboim/Berlin Philharmonic/Teldec CD ; Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn/Blue Thumb LP.
Sony Noise Cancelling Headphones WH1000XM3 for work (share an office).
And some terrific old-school CDs:
Ted Curson - Tears For Dolphy
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Live At Woodstock
Bobby "Blue" Bland & B.B. King - Together Again... Live
Tony Joe White - The Train I’m On
Folks,
I should say, I got pretty luck this year!
I have a friend who has finally decided to take a lunge into this wonderful hobby. He went around a couple of shops and listened to a few speakers from Revel and Paradigms. I got him in touch with my dealer to discuss further. Triangles, Totems and Martin Logans were added to the list. My friend has 0 CD/LPs and is practically starting from scratch. I have suggested that he should go with the Marantz PM700M for amplification and streaming. Looking at either Audio Envy or Signal Cables for speaker cables. I think I am more exited about his future system than he is :-)